A display apparatus and method that reduces block noise by performing block noise boundary detections and generating a block noise boundary map on the basis of a result of the detections to cope with local random block noise having irregular shaped and blurred block boundaries to perform adaptive deblocking filtering. The apparatus includes: an image receiver; a map generator to generate a block boundary map by performing convolution using a plurality of kernels on a received image; a determiner to determine a filter parameter on the basis of the block boundary map and a block boundary period included in the block boundary map; a deblocking filter to vary a filter strength on the basis of the determined filter parameter; and a display on which an image in which block noise is removed by the deblocking filter is displayed.
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1. A display apparatus comprising: a display; a memory configured to store instructions; and a processor configured to execute the instructions to: provide a block boundary map including a first block boundary map corresponding to an image received from an image provider by performing convolution using a plurality of kernels on the image received from the image provider and a second block boundary map by correcting the first block boundary map based on continuity of a block boundary included in the first block boundary map; obtain a histogram by accumulating a number of block boundaries included in the second block boundary map; obtain an average block edge strength based on the histogram; identify a block boundary period based on the average block edge strength; identify a filter parameter based on the block boundary map corresponding to the image and the block boundary period corresponding to block boundaries included in the block boundary map corresponding to the image, the block boundary period indicating an interval between the block boundaries included in the block boundary map corresponding to the image; perform deblocking filtering on the image by varying a filter strength based on the identified filter parameter; and control the display to display the image in which block noise is removed by the deblocking filtering.
2. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to provide a third block boundary map by correcting the second block boundary map based on the identified block boundary period.
3. The display apparatus of claim 2 , wherein the processor is configured to identify the filter parameter based on at least one of the average block edge strength, the block boundary period, a reliability of the block boundary period, or a block edge strength included in the third block boundary map.
4. The display apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the processor is configured to adjust the filter strength to be proportional to the block boundary period or a magnitude of the average block edge strength.
5. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to perform normalization on the image received from the image provider.
6. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to provide a plurality of correlation maps based on the correlation values, and provide the first block boundary map based on locations of selected pixels in the plurality of correlation maps.
7. The display apparatus of claim 6 , wherein the first block boundary map includes a two-directional map provided in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction.
8. The display apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to identify the block boundary period based on an offset when the received image includes a letter box.
9. A method of controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising: receiving an image; providing a block boundary map including a first block boundary map corresponding to the image by performing convolution using a plurality of kernels on the image and a second block boundary map by correcting the first block boundary map based on continuity of a block boundary included in the first block boundary map; obtaining a histogram by accumulating a number of block boundaries included in the second block boundary map; obtaining an average block edge strength based on the histogram; identifying a block boundary period based on the average block edge strength; identifying a filter parameter based on the block boundary map corresponding to the image and the block boundary period corresponding to block boundaries included in the block boundary map corresponding to the image, the block boundary period indicating an interval between the block boundaries included in the block boundary map corresponding to the image; performing deblocking filtering on the image by varying a filter strength based on the identified filter parameter; and displaying a result of the filtering.
10. The method of claim 9 , wherein the identifying of the filter parameter includes identifying the filter parameter based on at least one of the block boundary period, a reliability of the block boundary period, or the block edge strength included in the block boundary map.
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December 7, 2018
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